I had an MSRX for a few days and I traded it for another MSR. It has more power and it is a really neat machine but I don't know if it has a soul.

I laugh every time I fly my MSR. With my MSR I can high-speed piro (both ways) around the dining room table and am working on the reverse piro needed to do the pirouetting figure-eight around two wine bottles on the table. I can do a pretty fast high bank figure eight around those wine bottles with the MSR and I can only imagine that with an MSRX.

BTW Cut off about half the stock flybar paddles. It does two things: makes the flybar last longer because it is lighter and makes the MSR more lively. And the Cusker mod for the swash is a little livelier than the longer stock swash balls. I use negative expo to make things livelier yet and to sort of match the control behavior of my outdoor 250s.

I didn't laugh while flying the MSRX. Too tense! I could prio right but never left. I could never get the MSRX to do a good figure eight around my two tall wine bottles. I will post a video when I get a good one of my MSR doing a high speed figure eight.

If someone shows me a video of an MSRX doing a high banked figure-eight indoors then I might purchase another one. Until then I will just suffer along with "King Kong"- my MSR and his new buddy "Godzilla"-another MSR.

They sure are two completely different helis... Beware though, the more you practice and get used to the X, the more you'll like it. Give it a chance and really learn to fly it before you just give up on it. The effort is worth getting rid of the TBE prone and maintenance intensive flybar setup.

-Don

P.S. More power, and less weight without the FB, means it can handle more BLING hop-ups.

Actually the stock "X" Weighs slightly more than the MSR. The thinner blades and higher head speed already stresses the battery. I am running the MH head and blade grips on my MSRX and it is performing well, but I am reluctant in added more aluninum.